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Phalaenoides glycinae
Striking black with white patterns, few erect spikey hairs, band of 4 red squares, yellow claspers, 40mm length
On a decorative grape vine in a suburban back yard.
An endemic that has become a pest (to grape growers) and headed off around the world to exploit it's new career.
Spotted on Dec 26, 2011
Submitted on Dec 26, 2011
5 Comments
A beautiful caterpillar....
Well at least it's a pretty caterpillar butt!
You're looking much greener now - you should keep the badge.
See! They gave me an arthropod badge and I really don't know my arth from my elbow.
Actually very pretty. This would be the tail end, showing its claspers, This is a mirror image of its head which is also red, with black dots. http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&s...